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EnglishSource: GMA News12/08/2013 – It all started in 1984 in Los Baños, Laguna. Scientists had begun to develop an exciting new approach to breeding crops—genetic engineering—and everyone wondered how it could be used to help the world.
Source: The Times of India13/08/2013 – Bountiful rainfall in the paddy-growing regions of Karnataka has brought down the price of rice by 13%-24%. In one month, price of Sona Masuri has dropped from Rs 54 a kg to Rs 41-46 a kg, and that of Sona Steam from Rs 37-42 a kg to Rs 32-37a kg.
Source: GMA News11/08/2013 – Rice varieties that can adapt to climate changes are being studied and bred at the International Rice Research Institute in Los Banos, Laguna.
Source: Khaleej Times11/08/2013 – Newly planted rice shoots poking out of the Sudanese soil are as tiny as blades of grass, but they symbolise a big dream to turn around one of the world’s largest irrigated farming schemes.
Source: PhilStar11/08/2013 – The rice eel, which once infested palay cultivation areas in Cagayan Valley (Region 2), is now an export commodity.
Source: South China Morning Post10/08/2013 – Home-grown brown rice is taking the richness of Hong Kong’s paddies to the dining table, with the help of a green group and government funds.
Source: Great Lakes Echo08/08/2013 – Native wild rice is revered by the Ojibwa, Pottawatomi and Odawa tribes as part of the prophecy that brought them to the Great Lakes region.
Source: International Business Times07/08/2013 – A draft law in Myanmar that is intended to help farmers by setting minimum prices for crops may actually threaten to cripple them as well as undermine efforts to unleash the economic potential of a country that once was the world’s top exporter of rice.
Source: Los Angeles Times08/08/2013 – A genetically modified strain of rice might one day be used to prevent life-threatening rotavirus infections among children in the developing world, according to researchers.
Source: The Nation08/08/2013 – The government is expected to maintain the pledging price for the upcoming year at Bt15,000 per tonne of white paddy rice to ensure farmers’ satisfaction, but the price will be lowered in the following year, forum participants were told yesterday.